Columbia Sportswear said it didn't authorize this production, and cut ties with the Vietnamese factory soon after it found out about the practice.

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On the greener side of things, Ceradyne opens a factory this month in China to produce gear used in the production of polycrystalline silicon for the solar power industry.

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The company moved production to the new purpose-built site earlier this year from its previous factory two miles away in Burslem, where it had been based for more than 150 years.

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